Land vs People

Country · 14 regions

Where Saint Kitts and Nevis' land ends up, by people and by money

Every block on the map is 0.1% of Saint Kitts and Nevis. By land, Saint George Basseterre holds 13%. By people, it holds 22%. Saint James Windward goes the other way, from 12% of the land to 5.0% of the people. By GDP, Saint John Figtree punches above its population: 6.7% of the people, 9.3% of the economy.

GDP for Saint Kitts and Nevis is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.

Share of Saint Kitts and Nevis by region, in percent
RegionLandPeopleGDP
Saint George Basseterre132217
Trinity Palmetto Point5.61310
Saint Anne Sandy Point6.28.08.8
Christ Church Nichola Town7.97.37.4
Saint John Figtree6.56.79.3
Saint George Gingerland6.46.66.8
Saint Mary Cayon3.66.15.7
Saint Peter Basseterre5.75.24.4
Saint Thomas Lowland6.95.27.1
Saint James Windward125.05.2
Saint Thomas Middle Island114.74.6
Saint Paul Charlestown1.44.16.2
Saint John Capesterre8.13.63.9
Saint Paul Capesterre5.02.83.1

How the map is made

Regions are drawn on an equal-area grid of about 1,000 blocks. For land, each region keeps the blocks its territory covers. For people and GDP, the country is reshaped so every region gets a whole number of blocks in proportion to its share (Hamilton's largest-remainder method), keeping neighbours next to each other. Then every block is matched to one block on the next map, so you watch the same thousand blocks rearrange.

Grids: popgrid by Josep Ferrer (MIT). Boundaries: Natural Earth. Population: national censuses where curated, GHS-POP 2025 (JRC, European Commission) elsewhere. GDP: Kummu et al. 2025 gridded GDP PPP (CC BY 4.0). Built by Crafter Station.